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Title: Cars Buried by Flooding after St. Francis Dam Failure
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Publication Information: Museum of Ventura County
Contributing Institution: Museum of Ventura County
Collection: General Collection
Rights Information: The copyright to this image has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Description: View of two cars mostly submerged in what appears to be mud and rocks after the St. Francis Dam failure. Photograph notes state "Our car parked below all that's left of dam site."
Type: image
Format: 20.1 x 25.5 cm
Black and white photograph
Identifier: 13779
Language: English
Subject: Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Dam failures--California
Flood damage
Automobiles
Place: California
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
Source: Donated by: Maxine V. Tichenor, 1987

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